Well MIX ’10 has come and gone, and I had an incredible time during it. Not only did Microsoft have a ton of items to announce, but the sessions were great and the people fascinating. If you have never been to MIX, I highly recommend it. When else do you get to spend the majority of a week with access to product team members and experts whose blogs and articles you read?

So what did we learn at MIX this year? Of course the highly anticipated Windows Phone 7 Series development platform was released. What could be better than combining Silverlight and XNA and putting on the phone? (Of course, it would have been awesome to get one of those devices for development and test. 🙂 ) You can now download as VS 2010 for Phone here: http://developer.windowsphone.com/ . If you aren?t one of the lucky ones to have a cool little device for development, there is a truly slick emulator included in VS. One thing to note, even after it?s final release, this version of VS 2010 will be available for free.

OData (http://www.odata.org/) was another big announce on the second day of keynotes. It?s an amazing protocol and worth you taking a look at it.

Know, as exciting as all of the announcement at the keynotes were, Sterling Quinn took first place in my opinion. Who is Sterling Quinn you ask? He is an incredible 16 year old yo-yo champion. He spent close to 30 minutes amazing the massive audience prior to the first keynote on Monday. Take a look at the keynote at MIX or check him out at: http://yoyofactory.com/team/sterling_quinn.php.

Well that?s my brief review of MIX ’10. It was first time to attend MIX and will most definitely not be my last.

One last thing that impressed me was the music you found at MIX (pre keynotes, sessions, etc). The MIX team (twiiter: MIXEvent) was kind enough to post the music list here: http://live.visitmix.com/News/MIX10-Keynote-Walk-in-Playlist. However, since this post has a ton of links in it already, here is a copy of that list. Take a listen and hope you enjoy.